How to Repair a Burst Pipe

we're going to go and deer this and this is a directional tool so you want to go in the right direction and not drop your pipe I just seen if you're paying attention all right restart cut hey good morning guys it's Ben over at the neighborhood plumber I am a master plumber 15 years in the industry and this morning we are at beautiful Flowery Branch we got called out for a freeze break and I'm super excited to see what we got so let's check it out all right well that's not too hard to find so last night the customer called and obviously they heard this and seen it I walked them through getting their water off but we must still have an issue because we still have water so I'm assuming that based on seeing their old valve that maybe the gate valve didn't turn off all the way or maybe the customer didn't get it tight enough so one way to prevent this would be open a faucet so we can drain this system kind of before this freeze breake area so in this case they've got a front faucet I see that we could open and we could stop this draining in the house and get this draining outside but let's go see if this gate valve is going to turn off all the way so we can stop this water sometimes with these old gate valves because they're compression style you just got to tighten it and then maybe go a little tighter or a little tighter sometimes they fa and they will not turn the water off which in the case would have to be shut off at the street if you're unaware of how to do that the county will come out and shut it off for you we recommend full port ball valves that way it's on or off and there's no real in between or no Miss to where you're going to have this issue say this was in a in upstairs or on some floors or hardwood floors or what whatnot you would not want to continue to have this drip when you go to sleep a small even that small stream of water throughout the night could end up being uh 20 30 gallons of water so it's pretty significant even though they've got it controlled and down to a minor Stream So the valve's off now I got it as tight as it can be let's go out front and let's see if we can get this thing drained down stop this water here and then we'll assess and get a game plan on repairing and getting them back up and running all right guys we got all the water out of the system let's hop back inside and get this plan on this repair all right guys we are back at the crime scene we're going to going to check this out and I'm going to maybe go over some stuff that happened to this situation and how to prevent this if you're a homeowner we've had some super cold weather the past couple of days and in Southeast Georgia this just doesn't happen often I asked the customer if they left the faucet drip or left water run and she did not so when that happens and the water's not moving through these pipes a freeze breake can happen very quickly especially when we're below freezing for a couple of days like we've had it some things I like to inform my customers or anybody who owns a home is get familiar with your system you own a home it's very important a catastrophe Could Happen randomly cold weather definitely doesn't help know where your main shut off valve is know where your outside faucets or spets are know where the valves are at to turn those off if you're planning any special trips going out of town or not going to have anybody at the property always a good idea turn the water off drain your system so you don't come home to a catastrophe like we've had here so what is a freeze break a lot of people don't even really know what a freeze break is and a freeze break is something that occurs within the plumbing distribution system where water has obviously got to a point of freezing either heat was shut off um an area that's normally climate controlled wasn't climate controlled or no moving water through the pipe to prevent that freezing and when the freeze brake does occur all the water in the pipe will freeze and when that happens you have expansion so in material like copper or CPVC you're not going to have that much expansion so copper pipe will blow and literally swell and split similar to what we have here another pipe that is very notorious for freeze brakes is CPVC CPVC is a water pipe used hot and cold it's a plastic pipe and and it will literally Splinter and freeze uh crack down the sides um and just literally shatter sometimes with freeze brakes you do have a scenario where it did freeze it expanded and during the raisin temperature the pipe can thaw out contract and actually not burst like we've seen here but you could see a swell in the pipe where the uh outside diameter is actually changed Pex piping is is is very good piping for this situation because PEX pipe expands and contracts with the temperature you're not going to get a freeze burst like you will with copper CPVC all right guys we've seen the freeze breake we've talked about it let's get what we need let's get this cleaned up and let's get this water back on how about it and let's get it all right guys you followed the journey this far we're going to give you a couple options on repairs and kind of talk about what we are going to do to get our customer up and running and get on to the next call so with this being copper we could do a traditional solder joint but with that gate valve not turning off and all this water still in the pipe it's going to be a a tough repair to do that also might take a little longer other alternative with this water would be to maybe use a compression style fitting in that case the water in the pipe is irrelevant and we could get the water on pretty quick but compression fittings are kind of a thing of the past and with shark bite and their new technology their phenomenal warranty I think that we're going to use a shark bite Max and get this customers water on quick they've got to get to work and we've got a lot more calls so I am going to get some copper Cutters we're going to cut this pipe about right here we're going to cut this this pipe about right here I always like to repair about twoot a pipe instead of you know we could cut it here and try to jam a new fitting in or Jam a new piece of pipe but this copper is old and this freeze brake has swelled this pipe so even though the brake is right here the outside diameter of this pipe close to this freeze brake is not the true outside diameter of new copper so we'll cut we'll cut we'll get this section of pipe out we'll get some uh shark bite Max fittings which I'll show you guys in a few and we'll get this thing back together and get the water on get these customers on their way so we can get on ours all right we going to get this thing cut out of here David can I see those 3/4 roll [Music] Cutters thank you sir and let me go ahead and get a good tape measure so we're going to cut this with shark bite fittings you do not want your fitting buted up against another fitting it would just cause for a big problem should that fitting be effective or you not get it on right trying to get it back off so you always want to have 2 3 in before you get onto another fitting so keep that in mind when you're installing shark bites that you do not want fittings buted up on fittings so we are going to cut this and get this cleared away and we are going to cut right here so when I'm doing this I want to kind of see what's around me you know you wouldn't want to make this repair here just because everything's kind of in your way so you want to have enough spot to be able to get in there and work and get your fitting slid on and make sure everything is installed properly so I'm going to cut this out and I'm going to get this freeze breake oh closer to you guys still got a little water in there and let you see kind of how that freeze brake happened so that pipe will swell and blow right at the same let me see that tape measure down there and we'll get a good measurement on this so a couple other things you want to pay attention to is with shark bite or shark bite Max fittings is there's a special depth so we're going to we're going to get this cleaned up get this cleaned up and the depth chart is on the SharkBite website so make sure to check that shark bite Max and the shark bite standard fittings have different depths insertion depths so I am going to calculate based on my insertion depth based on the spacing that is not going to take any pipe I still have to allow for this/ inch of space between these two connectors so when we get this pipe up here we know we're going to have an inch and a quarter depth here inch and a quarter depth here and on our new section of pipe but we also have to account for this half inch on each fitting to make sure that we can get these fitting in there since this dead space is now taking up for pipe so if our measurement was 22 and 3/4 we're going to take off an inch and go to 21 and 3/4 so we make sure that we calculate this dead space on these fittings so I'm going to get these pipes cleaned up I'm going to get them marked for insertion depth and then you guys will see us get this thing together we want to make sure that we're on to smooth copper homeowner had painted this pipe so we're going to go ahead sandb ends outer portion of the pipe and we're going to take shark bites deburring tool and get these burrs out so we don't have turbulence in our water line when we get this water on so I'm going to get some sandpaper David you got some sandpaper for me we're going to sand these up real pretty get all this water out cleaning this copper you want to make sure that everything is smooth with this shark bite mat Max fitting the O-ring that connects to this copper and creates this seal is the most important part on the fitting and we want to make sure that there is no Burrs to cut damage or rip that O-ring as we slide this fitting on so it is very important to make sure that this pipe is clean smooth and free of any Burrs or foreign objects sharp pieces of metal [Music] and I think this is good and pretty right now so we're going to get our deburring tool and get in here and clean this Burr out shark bit's got this cool tool all pipe sizes with deburring tools so we are going to stick this in here de bur the outer edge of this deburing Cutters chinel loocks so that deburring tool will clean the outside of the pipe but with copper you also want to debur the inside of the pipe because when this water is flowing through this pipe if you do not get the bur off of the inside it will create a turbulence in the line which could be bad so we want to get in here and get that Burr out of there David go get me those bigger Cutters please the yeah let me see that de bur tool most of your traditional copper Cutters are going to have this deburring tool but this we ain't got much play now we're getting [Music] smooth good in smoth get all these metal shavings out of there all right and now I want to get my depth for my shark bite on each end which we know off their website is going to be inch and a quar and to mark this one inch and a quarter for that insertion depths and we are going to come over here and we are going to mark this inch and a quar for insertion depth so now once we push these this F sitting on we will know that it's going to be bottomed out all right guys we're going to cut this 21 and A4 my wonderful Apprentice is going to have my Cutters ready so we're going to get this pipe cut and repeat process I'm going to go ahead and debur both ends this pipe we're going to go and deeper this and this is a directional tool so you want to go in the right direction sandpaper got it we sand this copper this is new copper so I already know it's going to be pretty smooth but we're just going to get this oxidation off we're going to get it inch and a quarter we're going to get it inch and a quarter so now that we've got our pipe marked with our insertion depth I do want to show you guys with our shark bite Max fitting the depth of this pipe so once your fitting is pushed on you've got your mark you can verify that that fitting is pushed all the way if you ski this step or miss this step and this fitting is not pushed on the insertion depth that the manufacturer recommend commends this fitting can leak blow off and cause a problem and these steps are recommended by the manufacturer to protect the homeowners and you against a blowout I want to show you guys now that I've got my pipe cut I've got my fittings I know what we're doing I'm going to go ahead just to make it easier instead of being on the ladder up there I'm going to go ahead and push this fitting on with the new Max fitting they've taken out the stiffener and they've also made it much easier to slide on so you can fill it click you can slide it on fairly easy homeowner uh strong whatever you're going to slide I slide and twist and we're going to make sure we go beyond our Mark so now I know with my Mark I know that this fitting is pushed all the way it's bottomed out and we've got our insertion depth covered so we're going to get up here just double check everything is good I'm going to go ahead and just gently push this fitting on twist as I'm pushing and get that fitting bottomed out with our Mark we've got our play here for our other fitting I'm going to take our second fitting and I like to get it on the existing pipe first we're going to push it on there make sure it hits our insertion depth marks now I've got a little bit of play in both sides of my pipe I'm going to spread this pipe and get this lined up and get this fitting pushed in and bottomed out try I'm going to try to now I've got it lined up I'm going to push and bring all of this together so she is in all my fittings are good I'm going to go through double check all my depth marks are at or past my fitting this one you can kind of see but she's right there this one got a little covered up now all of my fittings are in double triple checked all right our repair is made I'm going to go ease this water on and I'm going to leave my Apprentice David here to keep an eye on everything make sure that we don't have any leakage or blowouts so follow me over to turn the water on and we'll go out front close that front SP it get this thing air uh pressurized up bleed all the air out and get on to the next one all right so we're back over here where you guys have seen me turn this water off we're going to ease this back on I've got this front faucet open I'm going to blow any air out of the system so I'm going to ease this on we're going to go shut that front spet and David is keeping an eye over on our repair to make sure we don't have any leaks let's go shut this SP so we've got good water flow here all the air is pushed out I'm going to reach down here and turn this water off and we're going to go back inside and make sure everything is good to go all right the water is on system is pressurized we've bled all the air out David kept an eye on this while I was turning the water on I'm now doing my final checks make sure that we don't see any water have any drops doesn't get faster than this all in all I'd say this was a 10 15 minute repair I appreciate you guys joining me and can't wait to see you on the next one have a great week

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Length: 19min 49sec (1189 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 16 2024